Summary: Don't believe everything you
read, especially when if it was real, it would have been a major news
story.

One of the things that amaze us here
at Boycott Watch is that people will believe almost anything and everything
they read, especially if it arrives in an email. In this case, an email is
circulating that claims a Newsweek Magazine article reported that President
Bush delivered a speech where he continually used the word 'feces' when he
meant to say 'fetus.'

When we first read the email,
we knew it had to be false because if the alleged speech was actually made,
especially during an election campaign, it would have been a major news story
and it would have been at the center of political ads by his opponent, John
Kerry. Guess what? None of that happened.

Boycott
Watch checked the Presidents schedule on the official White House web site, and
discovered that President Bush was in Florida the day before the alleged
incident delivering a speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, but was back
in Washington D.C. the day of the alleged incident.

No article about any such comment appeared in
Newsweek or any other news publication. The story is false, and Boycott Watch
urges people not to pass along any such emails with this or any other false
information.

Start Of Original email:

NEWSWEEK reports that President
Bush, appearing before a right-to-life rally in Tampa, Florida on June 17,
stated:

"We must always remember that all human
beings begin life as a feces. A feces is a living being in the eyes of God, who
has endowed that feces with all of the rights and God-given blessings of any
other human being."

The audience listened in
disbelief as the President repeated his error at least a dozen times, before
realizing that he had used the word 'feces" when he meant to say "fetus."